Staff Reporter :
A writ petition has been filed with the High Court, challenging the result of Bangladesh Bar Council elections and seeking a stay on the the result.
Yunus Ali Akond, a lawyer of the Supreme Court, on Sunday filed the petition as per the rules of the Bangladesh Bar Council Order-1972. He also prayed for a rule upon the Bar Council’s Chairman to explain as to why he should not be directed to count the ballot papers of the polls.
The writ petition will be heard by an HC bench comprising Justice Mainul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Mohammad
Ashraful Kamal today (Monday), sources said.
In the petition, Yunus Ali Akond, who also contested the election and lost, said that the chairman of the Bar Council had to count all the ballot papers received from various polling centres after the August 26 election as per rule 15 (2) of Bar Council law.
But Attorney General and Chairman of the Bar Council Mahbubey Alam declared the official result on September 3 on the basis of tabulation received from the presiding officers of the polling centres without following the bar council rules.
Terming the result illegal, Yunus Ali Akand said that the polls result was changed after the unofficial announcement, as Advocate SM Rezaul Karim got the 8th place in the unofficial counting, but when the official result was announced, he stood 6th.
Bangladesh Bar Council, its chairman and Advocate SM Rezaul Karim have been made respondents in the writ.
According to the official result, the ruling Awami League backed panel Sammilito Ainjibi Samannoy Parishad won 11 posts of executive members in the election while pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Oikya Panel got the remaining three.
The official result of the Bangladesh Bar Council election was announced on September 3. Mahbubey Alam announced the official results of the election in which Awami League-backed candidates were unofficially declared winners.
The elections were held across the country on August 26. The Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Panel rejected the result and demanded re-election. Candidates of the panel alleged of ‘unprecedented irregularities’ in the elections and said that the result was announced without counting the votes.
A writ petition has been filed with the High Court, challenging the result of Bangladesh Bar Council elections and seeking a stay on the the result.
Yunus Ali Akond, a lawyer of the Supreme Court, on Sunday filed the petition as per the rules of the Bangladesh Bar Council Order-1972. He also prayed for a rule upon the Bar Council’s Chairman to explain as to why he should not be directed to count the ballot papers of the polls.
The writ petition will be heard by an HC bench comprising Justice Mainul Islam Chowdhury and Justice Mohammad
Ashraful Kamal today (Monday), sources said.
In the petition, Yunus Ali Akond, who also contested the election and lost, said that the chairman of the Bar Council had to count all the ballot papers received from various polling centres after the August 26 election as per rule 15 (2) of Bar Council law.
But Attorney General and Chairman of the Bar Council Mahbubey Alam declared the official result on September 3 on the basis of tabulation received from the presiding officers of the polling centres without following the bar council rules.
Terming the result illegal, Yunus Ali Akand said that the polls result was changed after the unofficial announcement, as Advocate SM Rezaul Karim got the 8th place in the unofficial counting, but when the official result was announced, he stood 6th.
Bangladesh Bar Council, its chairman and Advocate SM Rezaul Karim have been made respondents in the writ.
According to the official result, the ruling Awami League backed panel Sammilito Ainjibi Samannoy Parishad won 11 posts of executive members in the election while pro-BNP Jatiyatabadi Oikya Panel got the remaining three.
The official result of the Bangladesh Bar Council election was announced on September 3. Mahbubey Alam announced the official results of the election in which Awami League-backed candidates were unofficially declared winners.
The elections were held across the country on August 26. The Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya Panel rejected the result and demanded re-election. Candidates of the panel alleged of ‘unprecedented irregularities’ in the elections and said that the result was announced without counting the votes.
